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俺たちファームズでノッテる said:
The beauty of open source is that anyone can continue this project where Intel left off.

Truly no open source project dies it just gets recompiled and spun off somewhere else. So with that in mind I'm not too sad over any project that dies in the FOSS space.
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As long as someone forks it and maintains it properly, and no "too many cooks" situation happens where everyone is just forking and forking and forking with no one being able to focus on maintaining and contributing to one of these forks.

FOSS isn't perfect and has a metric fuckton of pitfalls, but it sure as hell beats the compiled binary limbo of closed source.
 
I'm sure something inspired by Clear Linux will pop up sooner or later, but it sounds wonderful to be one of those people who use a distribution on a production machine only to have the support for said distribution immediately ended out of the blue.
 
analrapist said:
AUR sisters, did you get pwned?

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The reason why I only use AUR helpers to tell me what's out of date, no more. Not using the AUR would feel impossible for me, what I do is fetch the tarballs and vet them myself. I would've liked to have a look at those patches, I'd like to think I would've caught it. It being the malicious, nothing-to-do-with-anything repo.


Sound in Linux might as well be fucking black magic. On my Artix install the situation is currently very janky - in an attempt to fix the system not detecting headphones on startup, I got rid of pulseaudio and tried to stick to pipewire+alsa. When that didn't completely work, I disabled the non-working services and just put them in the user startup scripts instead. That lasted one (1) update cycle. I currently don't care and went to another, older, equally jank solution I had before I removed pulseaudio.
 
analrapist said:
AUR sisters, did you get pwned?

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The guy who did this was ether so retarded he did it using an account tied to his real name or was so retarded he reused passwords that let a bad actor gain access to his account.

If you look up "danikpapas" you get a huggingface account with his name on it. He has since changed the name to a generic one but its still cached on search engines right now

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To confirm that this is his real name i searched it on breachs and yep it is

twitter.com
emaildanikpapas@email.cz
usernameDanielZierl
nameDaniel Zierl
domainemail.cz
categoriessocial
createdMon May 14 13:50:29 +0000 2018

Wattpad
emaildanikpapas@email.cz
usernameZielonius
password$2y$10$6MUNPLHfvYM22KlvkqZPKeTdXSpcdvNZQSP47HfzMWjQ/YUjcqiXm
domainemail.cz
categoriessocial,media,art
countryCZ
createdate2016-12-01 19:17:24


000webhost.com
emaildanikpapas@email.cz
ip212.79.110.5
passwordkulisak1
nameKoppov?í
domainemail.cz
categorieshosting

Canva
emaildanikpapas@email.cz
usernamedanikpapas
nameDongo von Zomong
domainemail.cz
categoriesmedia,design
create_date2018-10-03 07:13:16
display_nameDongo von Zomong
localecs-CZ

canva.com
emaildanikpapas@email.cz
usernamedanikpapas
nameDongo von Zomong
domainemail.cz
categoriesart,media
create_date2018-10-03 07:13:16
deactivated0
hash$2a$10$rDauRJ43ajdhX2Ub8p2KHOkrJaPbJvAOaY7pZLVbEDUDRXe0.Z5yq
id93801801
id_hashUADE_2sO_Uw
localecs-CZ
mail_statusV
personal_brand93289891
personal_brand_idBADE_wPnbRk
rolesU
temporary0
ui_info{seenMobileExpDialog:true}
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As you can see he was part of 000webhost which stored passwords in plaintext.

So what do you guys think? Was he the one behind the malicious AUR packages or did he get pwned by reusing passwords? Personally i'm leaning on the latter.
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
But isn't Clear Linux just compiling optimizations? Any distro can do that. Especially Gentoo (which did have an article for that?) You don't really need a unique distro for that.
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im not sure what optimizations clear linux is doing but i do know how gentoo does them, and its by compiling packages for your cpu flags
cachyos also does this, giving you different repos for different cpu types
 
Betonhaus said:
drag and drop seems to work fine for me, what kind of desktop shortcuts are you trying?
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Drag-and-drop makes shortcuts in Linux? I'll have to try that when I get back from the store. I was trying to make a shortcut to a flash game that I have in my games folder.
 
ZMOT said:
he might be using gnome, iirc the footfags see no use case for having shortcuts on the desktop.
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Might be the thing they're least wrong about. Don't we all just launch stuff- whether on Windows or most Linux desktop environments- by hitting the meta key (or something like meta-d or meta-r if we're using i3 or similar WMs), typing the first few letters of the application, and hitting enter?
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
I think endeavor is really the recommended easy to use arch distro. Manjaro will give you problems because of how they manage packages. Artix is fine if you actually know what you are doing with your init systems. But if you don't, and you want arch, without actually learning about how to install or use arch. Endeavor is probably going to be the best bet. Otherwise probably just install arch.
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>not recommending ArchBang as the one true lazy man's Arch Linux

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Frederica Bernkastel said:
Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?
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My first distro was Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit on an old ass HP computer tower with a dual core Intel Celeron CPU and 1 GB of RAM. Reason why I jumped ship was precisely because I never did a "clean" install of Windows 7, instead opting to "upgrade" from OEM Windows Vista that already succumbed to Windows rot by 2008. Truthfully? It was a vast and truly wonderful experience. I spent more time combing through Linux shit than I did doing my Algebra, biology, and global history homework. This was shortly after Canonical ditched the red/orange/white colour scheme from Jaunty Jackalope, pivoting into the violets. From my perspective at the time, Ubuntu was just good enough for me to do all my English essays in LibreOffice, and the OOXML compatibility was just good enough for me to finish working on papers in the school library on those old ass Dell Optiplexes from 2002 that still ran Windows XP.

Good Lord, it was almost 15 years ago and it still feels like OpenOffice.org was still a thing, that Java SE 5 was the last "good" Java version before Oracle shitcanned everything, CentOS 6 just came out and it was using upstart instead of SysV and a little before the transition to systemd, GNOME 3 just came out and so many distros were holding out on GNOME 2.32 until MATE came out, the list goes on and on.
 
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888Flux said:
also might be worth checking whats up in pavucontrol if it's available on your system, it should work with pipewire-pulse
has solved many issues for me
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Jang Joo said:
Sound in Linux might as well be fucking black magic
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so, my previous problem was sound was popping and the video acting like the space bar was being pressed so it was playingpausingplayingpausing until i did some kind of click out. I don't know what the fuck was going on with the computer, cause at the same time i was unable to move brave tabs, and had to click out of the brave browser for pages to load.

did some updating. got alsa to break and restart. downloaded pavu(i didn't need it but thanks for the reminder).

protonvpn broke and i had to purge everything proton related from the comp, had to manually delete the kill switch in nmcli, rip protonvpn out by the fingernails by searching apt list --installed and i finally got everything to work. i was on the brink of installing arch. it's good to have your shit fuck up sometimes just so you can remember how bad it was in ubuntu 6.0 lol
 
Frederica Bernkastel said:
Anyone using Linux here remember their first time using it? Why did you switch and what was it like?
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IIRC I tried ubuntu first because back then it was unanimously the most recommended "noob distro" (nowadays that's mint, for very good reasons). It was bad and I hated it, the apple-like UI felt even worse than windows and I haven't read anything about how linux works so installing software left me frustrated. I gave up after a few days. I do not remember the reason for trying it out, maybe just curiosity.
After some time, I tried out Manjaro, I think mostly because I was feeling more and more schizo about windows spying - although I don't think I felt too strongly about it back then. It still wasn't pleasant, I didn't see the point and it still just felt like "knockoff windows".
Then again, around late 2019 or early 2020 (I know it was just before corona, manjaro must have been ~2018, ubuntu no idea), I was watching youtube and Luke Smiths videos have been showing me just how good linux can be if you configure it yourself and familiarize yourself with the tools you want to use. So I gave arch a try from his guide, used LARBS, too, modified that to suit me, since he included a helpful guide for doing that. For a few weeks I was dual-booting, and using both windows and linux, but gradually I was just using linux more and more because it genuinely felt better to use than windows.
I have to say that having to do a lot of that manual work and reading some of the wiki during arch install definitely helped me understand more about how linux works - and thus made me not give up due to a lack of knowledge like previously.
I still have a dual boot setup on my main PC, I keep the old windows partition in case I ever want to play any game - because I don't want to bother with wine and such for inferior experience, but I almost never use it. Last time I booted it was when KCD2 came out.
Nowadays I'm playing around with OpenBSD/Gentoo for my server, and I want to try out Antix/Artix on my laptop to see if I can use it instead of arch to avoid systemd.
 
gampboonerisms said:
so, my previous problem was sound was popping and the video acting like the space bar was being pressed so it was playingpausingplayingpausing until i did some kind of click out. I don't know what the fuck was going on with the computer, cause at the same time i was unable to move brave tabs, and had to click out of the brave browser for pages to load.

did some updating. got alsa to break and restart. downloaded pavu(i didn't need it but thanks for the reminder).

protonvpn broke and i had to purge everything proton related from the comp, had to manually delete the kill switch in nmcli, rip protonvpn out by the fingernails by searching apt list --installed and i finally got everything to work. i was on the brink of installing arch. it's good to have your shit fuck up sometimes just so you can remember how bad it was in ubuntu 6.0 lol
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Funny. everyone tells me debian based distros don't break. But if you run arch, everything will fall apart.

@ZMOT he might be using gnome, iirc the footfags see no use case for having shortcuts on the desktop.
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what are you? a windows nigger?
 
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